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The Studio and Pro maybe. The Solo and Tour are just too muddy for vocals
Yep have repaired and modded a mates Studio while ago, the Pro's slightly improved than the Studio. Haven't heard the Solo's but have heard the Solo HD's if they are any different and have owned the Tour's, they are both absolute rubbish for the price they are set at, $50-80 I can understand but $190-240 is a straight forward kill yourself moment lol.
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That makes no sense. Good headphones should always be neutral and not alter the sound.
While all the below multi-quote's I've included from other user's have questioned your statement, you do realise that a very large percentage of headphones being sold are not neutral, some entitle themselves to having it said being neutral or aiming for that neutral sound but it's completely not, for example Audeze advertise's their LCD2's as neutral headphones and I can tell you it is far from being completely neutral, both soundwise by ear's and measurements. Neutrality is good for when you want no alterations to the sound so it's just almost exact to the way the recording or a live music event is conducted or other purposes such as monitoring music pieces so you can identify artefacts in the piece your working with and to be honest your drawn more to your music if you have some coloration's to the sound.
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That's a myth. As an audiophile I agree that neutral is the way to go, but from real world experience sometimes I'm just in the mood for something completely ridiculous that just works well for one music genre. Some people dont understand though that neutral doesnt mean dull, it it's anything but that when done right
Exactly, couldn't have said it better myself.
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You don't seem to understand that sometimes music is not intended to be played with neutral equipment, and that some people prefer colored headphones.
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That's quite true. I imagine the "neutral" most people think of when they say this is either bass-light or mid-centric.
I don't berate people who like a colored sound, as long as they know that's what they like and as long as it's not being sold to them as accurate. But neutral will always be my preference, and I think everybody should experience "good" neutral at some point so they have a benchmark. Folks who thought of it as boring just might end up liking it after all.
Most tend to see neutral as bass-lite since their is the aim of having no emphasis on the bass (which we all love
), not sure about mid-centric.
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well neutral or not, everybody is united with the love of transparency~
+1, their is no enjoyment in listening to your music, if you can only hear part's of the music characteristically (by low's, mid's, high's, treble etc), more fun listening to the music when you can hear all part's of it clearly and distinguishable. Like looking through a clean window as compared to a dirty one (this goes back to veiled sound vs non-veiled sound).
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Still, there are much better headphones out there with an accentuated bass response than the Dre beats for the same or less money
Definitely better for the price out there, but if you ever get your hands on a broken pair of Studio's or Pro's, take out the drivers and use it in an open shell without the equaliser (amp chip) and you'd be surprised how much better they sound compared to stock form (but still not totally worth $250-350, Monster is asking).
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I can NOT admit that, because I like those genres, and when I tried the Pros at Best Buy, they were absolutely horrible.
Absolutely horrible for their retail price - yes, but abolutely horrible sounding, berating it to that level by your description, I think you're just overemphasising it bit too much, their are better out their but as I said, thanks to the EQ chip in the Studio's (not sure if the Pro's have one too), they don't sound
that bad with rap/hip hop at all, actually to tell you the truth, for just rap and hip hop, if the Studio's/Pro's were a lot cheaper I'd easily pick it over the Pro700MK2's and M50's solely just for those genre's only.
The shame thing is also is that while it is sort of over rated and over priced crap (for their value), a lot of people talk smack when it comes to Beat's or Skullcandy or whatever, bad labelling it even when they have not heard it, given that their are also alot of crap headphones/earphones from big reputable companies out their as well, it's worth a thought, but remember at the end of the day's it doesn't matter if your an audiophile or not, as long as you enjoy your music from whatever headphone/equipment component, that's all that matter's.
Please do research next time. Also, "flat" headphones do exist. One I know of is the SS-100. Not sure of the general sound, but most describe it as "special".
Do you own, heard or have measured the SS-100 before?
